Analog film photography and cameras

One forgets MV, it was a year or three ago and I never kept meticulous dev notes.
Knowing me, it was ID-11, stock, recommended time, and agitate every 30 seconds.

In the early days, reading Adams and various commentators, I became very enthused about the zone system, bought a couple of meters and started tweaking development times to account for contrast. Whilst results were good, I came to accept that this rarely suited my preferred style of photography, which is impulsive and features few static scenes. I decided then to always use the cameras' onboard TTL meters, shooting in aperture priority (occasionally I will use exposure compensation for a backlit scene or suchlike) and always develop the films using standard times and conditions. I found this very liberating and have rarely been let down by the results.

In the same vein, I shed many of the lenses I had acquired for the minolta system, (17mm rectilinear? 70-210mm f/3.5 tele? was never using them), got shot of the cokin filter system and usually leave my tripod at home. This means I take the camera with me more, and take more photos. To each man, his own. :-)

Cheers.
As you might have read I'v been shooting Tri X and devving it in R09 but finding it hard to get consistant results.
Using R09 as I'v read that stand devving withit results in nice fine grain but you're images have very little grain going on for 1600iso.
Might try some ID11.
I'v bought a spot meter and The Negative by Adams recently, I think spot metering suits my still quite well and as my favourite camera is my Mamiya 645 with WLF, in camera metering isn't an option.